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• Anxiety
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  Disorders and Syndromes
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  Panic attack

  A panic attack is a period of intense, often temporarily disabling sense of extreme fear or psychological distress, typically of abrupt onset. Though it is often a purely terrifying feeling to the ... > more
• Borderline Personality Disorder
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Anger Management
  Mental Health Research
   

  Antisocial personality disorder

  Antisocial personality disorder (APD or ASPD) is a psychiatric diagnosis that interprets antisocial and impulsive behaviours as symptoms of a personality disorder. Psychiatry defines only ... > more
• Anxiety
  Behavior
  Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Mental Health
  Depression
   

  Phobia

  A phobia is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. Some ... > more
• Eating Disorders
  Eating Disorder Research
  Nutrition Research
  Diet and Weight Loss
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  Eating disorder

  An eating disorder is a compulsion in which the main problem is a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health. The eating may be too excessive (compulsive over-eating), too limited ... > more
• Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Mental Health
  Depression
  Child Development
  Autism
   

  Anti-psychiatry

  Anti-psychiatry refers to approaches (sometimes seen as a coherent movement) which fundamentally challenge the theory or practice of mainstream psychiatry in general, and biological psychiatry in ... > more
• Behavior
  Anger Management
  Social Psychology
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Passive-aggressive behavior

  Passive-aggressive behavior refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. Sometimes a method of dealing with stress ... > more
• Addiction
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  Drug addiction

  Drug addiction, or substance dependence is the compulsive use of psychoactive drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. Drug addiction has two components: ... > more
• Sleep Disorders
  Sleep Disorder Research
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  Insomnia
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Menopause
   

  Night terror

  A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. The subject wakes ... > more
• Depression
  Gene Therapy
  Mental Health Research
  Mental Health
  Psychiatry
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   

  Seasonal affective disorder

  Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, also known as winter depression is an affective, or mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience ... > more
• Illegal Drugs
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  Epigenetics
   
  

  Psychoactive drug

  A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, ... > more

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